Staletá Praha 38, 1/2022

Josef Mánes and the architectural decor of Prague in the 19th century
Josef Mánes und der Architekturdekor Prags im 19. Jahrhundert

Petr Šámal

Staletá Praha 38, 1/2022, 2-27 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2022.1.01  

In the second half of the 19th century, Prague and its suburbs became the scene of a massive boom of the nascent civil society, technical and economic growth, culture and art, and also, depending on the huge building development of European cities, the rise of architecture and construction of the historicism era, followed by Art Nouveau and modernism. To a large extent, typical rich architectural decor became an inherent part of public and private building designs of that period. This design was greatly influenced by the painter Josef Mánes (1820-1871), who stimulated also many other branches of Czech fine art of that time. The study examines specific...

From Královské Vinohrady Around The World And Back : Life and work of the painter Josef Kitzler

Petr Kitzler

Staletá Praha 38, 1/2022, 28-47 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2022.1.02  

The following article is the first more detailed up to date text dedicated to the academic painter Josef Kitzler (1891-1965?), born in Královské Vinohrady, who spent many years of his life travelling, working and exhibiting in a number of European, American and African cities. Today an almost forgotten artist, painter and illustrator, his work generally belonged to the broader stream of classical modernism of the First Czechoslovak Republic. However, Kitzler's paintings inspired by his repeated stays in South Africa, often depicting local natives as well as lush exotic vegetation, thematically significantly diverge from the main stream and do not lose...

From Exhibitions to Collections : Exhibitions of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague in the Years 1905-1939 and the Photographic Collection Formation
Von den Ausstellungen zur Sammlung : Die Ausstellungen des KunstgewerbeMuseums in Prag in den Jahren 1905– 1939 und die Entstehung seiner Fotosammlung

Filip Wittlich

Staletá Praha 38, 1/2022, 48-75 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2022.1.03  

This article deals with the most significant photographic exhibitions organized in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague from the turn of the century to 1939, describing the process of the gradual inclusion of photography first in the exhibition and then in the museum's collection program. In chronological order, attention is mainly paid to the Exhibition of Czech Portrait Miniatures and Small Effigies held in 1913, the Exhibition of Photographs in 1914 and especially the exhibition One Hundred Years of Czech Photography in 1939. In this context the formation of the museum's photographic collection is discussed together with the circumstances of...

The Cosmic and Earthly Message of Sauro Ballardini's Mosaics : Rescue and restoration of the mosaic "Man Conquering New Horizons of the Universe" and searching for new perspectives for historical mosaics in the Czech Republic

Magdalena Kracík Štorkánová, Veronika Vicherková, Pavla Bauerová, Martin Hemelík, Dana Rohanová

Staletá Praha 38, 1/2022, 76-115 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2022.1.04  

The article reviews the life and work of the Italian mosaicist Sauro Ballardini (1925-2010), who from the early 1960s to 1981 worked at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts as a teacher and devoted himself to monumental mosaics. His opus musivum remains an integral part of the history of this art technique in Bohemia, as well as remarkable conjunction of contemporary requirements placed on public art commissions and the personal contribution of an artist of Italian origin and training. The authors present a range of Ballardini's mosaics preserved in the Czech Republic and deal in more detail with the author's largest glass realization in the country, the...

Unknown remains of the main altar of the collegiate church in Vyšehrad from around 1600?

Aleš Mudra

Staletá Praha 38, 1/2022, 116-121 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2022.1.05  

In 2021, the Prague City Museum acquired excellent monumental wood carvings of St. Peter and Paul of Prague origin from the turn of the 17th century. Their style has no direct comparison in Bohemia; the closest workshops capable of creating such work operated in southern Germany. In Prague at that time, there were not many institutions that could afford such a spectacular commission, nor discerning customers with the range of knowledge exceeding the local horizon. Therefore, it is possible to connect the sculptures with Vyšehrad, where at the time of the reconstruction of the collegiate church of St. Peter and Paul the initiative of the chapter's superiors...

Exil ve vlasti.

Irmhild Heckmann

Staletá Praha 38, 1/2022, 122-155 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2022.1.06  

Damian Pešan, spolupracovník Josipa Plečnika a spolutvůrce Pražského hradu. K 135. výročí jeho narození

Patrik Líbal

Staletá Praha 38, 1/2022, 156-160 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2022.1.07  

Recenze - Richard Biegel: Město v bouři. Urbanismus a architektura historického centra Prahy 1830-1970

Josef Holeček

Staletá Praha 38, 1/2022, 161-167  

Nově prohlášené nemovité kulturní památky na území hl. m. Prahy v roce 2021

Kateřina Houšková, Matyáš Kracík

Staletá Praha 38, 1/2022, 168-172  

Hardtmuth (výstava v NTM)

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